Trey Mancini completed his inspirational return from cancer last season. But at the same time, it didn’t feel like the slugger was truly “back.”
To be sure, Mancini made the comeback he needed to make. He returned to status as an everyday player. He was a reliable presence in the Orioles lineup. He had his life back. In terms of everything Mancini the person could have hoped for, 2021 was check marks all across the board.
Mancini the player, though, still had some work to do to get back to the way he was in 2019, before the colon cancer diagnosis.